STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Pre-Primary stage is not the stage for formal educational learning. This stage may be characterized by group activities, play-way techniques, number games, storytelling etc.
Keeping in view this need, a workshop for young kids was organised in Delhi Public School (DPS), Jammu to equip them with the required tools of pedagogy and make the teaching learning process better and interesting in the classroom.
The workshop was conducted by DPS faculty, Anuradha Rance and Ritu Kapoor who attended a six months training programme at HRDC Dwarka, New Delhi.
The resource persons stressed that the specific objective of the workshop was to develop the children physically, mentally, emotionally, aesthetically and linguistically and also to empower them to organise meaningful educational games and activities.
Each session at the workshop was enriching where each speaker emphasised on the need for out of the box thinking and innovative teaching learning methodology.
Teachers were divided into groups and involved in various stage activities like puppet show, storytelling, rhymes, dramatization etc. The session on storytelling was very interesting.
The main objective behind conducting this session was to enhance the art of narration. The story was demonstrated by the resource persons using various visual clues and properties like flash cards, charts, illustrations etc. The story related in the poem form gave teachers an idea as to how to make their classroom teaching more effective and interesting.
This interactive workshop was concluded by getting suggestions on how to develop and improve the learning capabilities of the differently abled children.
Headmistress upto Middle School, DPS Jammu, Meenu Gupta, while congratulating the resource persons for conducting innovative and motivational session for teachers, stressed that such Teach Meets are the underground revolution of teacher training. All the teachers, new or established should be given an opportunity to develop, to share and to train, in order to meet the challenges of today’s classrooms situations by organising such in house Teach Meets.
Preeti Abrol, Coordinator Pre-Primary Block, DPS Jammu was also present.
Additional Director/ Principal Dr. (Mrs.) D. Joseph conveyed her congratulations to the staff for their dedicated involvement in their profession.
